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Fearless

HMS Fearless

Scuttled

Royal Navy

TypeDestroyer
ClassF
WarSecond World War
Main guns4 × 4.7″ guns

At Mers-el-Kébir. Hit by an aircraft torpedo on a Malta convoy in July 1941 and sunk by her own side.

Photograph of UK destroyer HMS Fearless (H67). Photo: Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
  • 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns
  • 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 20 × depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers
BuilderCammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down17 July 1933
Launched12 May 1934
Displacement1,405 long tons (1,428 t) (standard)
Length329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Speed35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph)
Complement145

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

12 May 1934

Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
Survived

3 July 1940

Fate

Scuttled

Torpedoed by Italian aircraft and scuttled, 23 July 1941